No terms had been agreed upon prior to the return to normal in the "Doomed Battalion" camp in Singapore Road, which was the Scene of many disturbances recently which in turn caused Russian volunteers guarding the place to open fire killing one of the soldiers interned in the camp. Conditions are now similar to those existing before September 13, that is to say, before the disturbances.
In his latest statement to the press, General Hsieh Ching-yuan, commander of the battalion, is quoted as saying that he wanted things to become normal in his camp after holding discussions with two members of the Shanghai Mu: cipal Council who visited him and also owing to a telegram from General Chiang Kai-shek.
AN terms for settling the unfortunate affair will have to be referred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for negotiations with the foreign authorities concerned, General Hsieh revealed. In view of this, no terms were discussed when a settlement of the trouble was reached locally.
The supply of electricity in the internment camp has been restored and many Chinese students have sent "comforts" to the internees. The dead soldier has been buried by his comrades inside the camp. The coffin was made by the men themselves. Besides four wounded soldiers who are recuperating in the Lester Chinese Hospital there are 22 slightly injured soldiers receiving first aid treatment daily in the camp, it is stated, U.S. Loans for When war broke out at the beginning of September, the Oder was commandeered with other ships in Hamburg to transport German troops to Poland and these ships went sailing back and forth under German naval and air force convoy until they were suddenly stopped."
"We Chinese seamen," the boatswain explained, "were allowed to carry on our duties on board the Oder, as were other Chinese crews on other ships, but about a month later, for some reason which we found later to be because the British blockade had been made too tight, our ship, as well as all the others of which we knew, stopped sailing.
"Alt the same, though our ship was held up in port, we were forced to stay on board all the time and it became very tiresome for us.
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